the wind in your eye (2024)

multi-purpose landscaping sand, plaster cast rocks and rock fragments

17.5 x 23 x 36.5ft

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an interweaving of more threads than ever before

(yet the same threads that have always run through)

the desire for touch, as in knowing, a seeing that goes beyond the surface, the knowing of one’s full being in space, in place, in land

the disconnection from land, from place, from body, from self

and the desire for return

how a room is a being, how a landscape is a being, how a landscape is a language and

A body at rest, the quietness of the sensation

of being right within your body; to feel whole beyond the absence of pain; walking backwards (or so far forward) through pain to a quiet place

Looking at the edge of visibility / invisibility

Placelessness as an existential state

Placelessness as an imposed state

(Imposed by the mechanism of: the drone camera’s eye, the grid, systems which require order, systems which impose control, being known as the first step to losing agency, being known as the first step of extraction — or perhaps this is the fear that drives the impulse towards silence, towards opacity, towards the mess and the body, the alive and the dead)

The flattening of the world

The unflattening of the world, through language that is relational, material that is felt

& the lack of an edge, unbroken time,

            the line that runs through a palm

            the line that runs on the feet of water

            bone-shaped earth

            doubling on the sound of the wind in your eye

all will cease to exist

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